New Bern Obituary Index

The New Bern Obituary Index helps users find obituaries or death notices located in the newspapers of New Bern. The dates given in the index are the dates of the obituary or death notice, not the actual dates of death.

The Obituary Index includes obituaries and death notices from 1751 through the current year.

Also included are several obituary "hoaxes" or death notices of people who were actually still living. Two such cases are the "obituaries" of Jimmie Lillian Roll in 1968 and John Koonce in 1888. For the trivia buff, the shortest name in our database is Ben, a slave, whose death was reported on April 25 and 26, 1848. The longest name in our database is Byron Hiram Ariom Long Myram William John Adrian Livingston Corbett, whose death is reported in the Tribune of August 17, 1935.

Copies of the obituaries or death notices listed in the index can be obtained by sending a check or money order for $2.00 for each notice to:

Kellenberger Room
New Bern-Craven County Public Library
400 Johnson Street
New Bern, NC 28560

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Order by: ID A-Z ID Z-A Published A-Z Published Z-A Last Name A-Z Last Name Z-A First Name A-Z First Name Z-A Middle/Maiden Name A-Z Middle/Maiden Name Z-A Year Min-Max Year Max-Min

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Year	Search	Clear

Records Found: 186286

Last Name	First Name	Middle/Maiden Name	Month	Day	Year	Newspaper	Page	Column	URL
Small	Penola	(Mrs. Freeman)	6	10	1885	NBDJ	4	3	newspapers#nbdj
Small	Jim		1	22	1904	NBWJ	3	2	newspapers#nbwj
Small	William	Edward "Little Ed"	9	14	2011	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Eliza		1	22	1904	NBWJ	3	2	newspapers#nbwj
Small	James	Edward, Jr.	3	31	2005	SJ	D2	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Mae	Tiller	3	26	2017	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Chester		1	21	1944	SJ	7	3	newspapers#sj
Small	R.	B.	1	6	1966	SJ	13	1	newspapers#sj
Small	Julia	F.	2	7	1888	NBDJ	1	1	newspapers#nbdj
Small	Fred	W.	1	26	1943	SJ	1	3	newspapers#sj
Small	Eva	Vivena	12	29	1942	SJ	5	5	newspapers#sj
Small	Borden	Benjamin (Byrd)	1	7	1966	SJ	12	4	newspapers#sj
Small	Gertrude		4	11	2023	SJ	4A	--	newpapers#SJ
Small	John	Clarence	11	21	1966	SJ	18	6	newspapers#sj
Small	Elizabeth	M. Ray [Mrs. Whitnell]	3	10	1939	SJ	5	7	newspapers#sj
Small	James	Wesley "Pete"	5	13	2016	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Ashford	Albert	1	13	1958	SJ	5	7	newspapers#sj
Small	Mae	Tiller	3	29	2017	SJ	A6	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Walter	L.	5	28	1939	SJ	1	3	newspapers#sj
Small	Matthew	Thomas [d. 2020]	7	15	2021	SJ	2A	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Henry		7	4	2006	SJ	B2	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Jesse		8	22	2012	SJ	6	--	newspapers#sj
Small	T.	R.	3	14	1888	NBDJ	1	6	newspapers#nbdj
Small	Patricia	Elizabeth	6	26	2015	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj
Small	Jeanette	L.	11	28	2016	SJ	A2	--	newspapers#sj